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Jim Yong Kim, nominated to be the next World Bank president, is a prominent player in global health care, particularly in developing countries. Mr. Kim, currently president of Dartmouth College, previously led the global health and social medicine department at Harvard Medical School. He has served as a director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization, where he focused on helping developing countries improve AIDS treatment and prevention programs. Mr. Kim has also worked on tuberculosis, including efforts to cut the cost of treatment and finding treatments for drug-resistant strains. Read More »

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